Ms Bitz's blog

Hard to believe it is the end of the year already, seems as though we just started.  We had a terrific year, and the children have learned a lot of new things.  Just to recap, we learned about ourselves, our families, apples and Johnny Appleseed, pilgrims and Thanksgiving, sun-air-water, winter and snow, the seasons and temperature, rainforest animals and spring and flowers.  We will be learning about insects during summer school, which will begin on Monday, June 22 and go through July 17.  Looking forward to a great summer experience for the children.   We will be saying good-bye to a few of our friends this summer, and we will be welcoming some new ones in the fall. May all of you have a relaxing and enjoyable summer filled with great weather and fun. 

It is already mid October, and the children have been very busy.  There has been a lot happening in our classroom since we began school.

We have been working on our direct instruction reading program-Reading Mastery, and the children are all doing well.  We have been working on handwriting, math, computers, listening center and journaling as well.  NTDSE just subscribed to the Education City Math program online, which we have been exploring.

During October, we are learning about pumpkins, Halloween, fall and will begin learning some basic map skills.  We went on our 1st Community trip to Dominick's.  We planned our October cooking projects and went shopping for the items that we needed. The children had fun finding, picking out and carrying our needed ingredients.